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UPDATE: The Business of Entertainment

Publication Date:

2007-08-31 (Archive)

Date Submitted:

2007-08-02

Announcement ID:

157612

We are seeking additional contributions for the articles that will ultimately make-up Volumes 2 & 3 (Music & TV) of The Business of Entertainment: Movies, Music, & Television, a 3 volume series under contract with Praeger Press. Please pass this call on to any colleagues you think might be interested.

Accepted articles will be between 5,000 to 10,000 words, including works cited, and will adhere to the Chicago style. We welcome contributions from professors, grad students and non-academic experts as well. Please e-mail completed articles or abstracts of no more than 300 words to sickelrc at whitman dot edu by August 31, 2007. Also, please e-mail with any questions or requests for further information.

This series will detail the ways in which the media conglomerates that control the contemporary entertainment industry exploit the synergies between their companies. What does all this mean to us, the consumers, the end users who just want to be entertained and want to have a wide selection of options from which to choose? How and why are choices affected and for the sake of what or whom? In investigating the answers to these questions and many more, these texts will collectively illuminate the business of contemporary entertainment in a way that will appeal not only to academics and students, but to general readers as well. While each of the books will be about a specific industry, there will be great analytical overlap, which is by design as the industries themselves desire as much overlap as possible so as to maximize control and profitability.

The following are prompts for the kind of things we’re looking for. Please be advised that we’re not wedded to any one topic and are quite open to suggestions.

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